The Startup Operator

This is it.    The end of 2020 is almost here.   We have Devaiah Bopanna (ex-AIB) with us again to round up the year that was. In this episode, we dive into the various aspects of 2020 that we want to take forward with us in 2021. Listen to this episode for a peculiar take on how the startup scenes have evolved in India, the grasp social media has on us, and the hits & misses of the year. What are your biggest takeaways of the year? Let us know via our social handles -  Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

About a billion people in the world suffer from lifestyle diseases. What’s more discomforting is that the numbers are hurtling to a staggering 2 billion in the span of a mere two decades. And, our current medical solutions focus on managing the symptoms but not the actual root causes.   Vivek Subramanyam, Founder & CEO of AltLife, talks to us about how his second startup venture is taking a radically new approach to solving the most prevalent lifestyle diseases. ---------------  Connect with Vivek -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/viveksubramanyam/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivekspeak --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

In the latest episode of The Startup Operator, Roshan invites Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, who is a partner at Upekkha Catalyst. Upekkha helps founders build value SaaS startups.   Prasanna earlier served as the CTO at Microsoft Accelerator for India, the largest effort of its kind felt it in his bones when helping over 100 B2B startups iterate to their product-market fit.    In this episode, we understand some of the alternate ways of growing a startup, along with Bootstrapping vs raising funds,  Revenue-based funding, Traditional vs Valuation business, and more ---------------  Connect with Prasanna -   LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasannainindia/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/prasanna_says If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and follow us on -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator  Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

What would you do if you never got enough to read in your own language? Today, we have with us Ranjeet who co-founded Pratilipi to ensure that his regional language content is accessible to more and more people. Featured in Entrepreneur India’s 35Under35 2020 list, Ranjeet started Pratilipi in 2015. Today, the content platform has more than 160,000 writers and 8.5 million monthly active readers on the platform, up from 75,000 writers and 3.3 million readers, in January 2019. If you want to know more about content creation, running a content business, or simply curious why more and more people are turning to content creation as a source of income, then this episode is for you. ———————— Connect with Ranjeet - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjeetpsingh/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/thebmr If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and follow us on - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

One of the first episodes that we uploaded was back during the first leg of the lockdown. It was a conversation featuring Ashwin SL of MoEngage on how marketers would and should re-align their priorities to suit the times.  In this episode, Roshan and Ashwin deep-dive into how some of those ideas and strategies panned out as we near the end of 2020. If you are a marketing person, then this conversation is definitely for you.   ---------------------  Connect with Ashwin -   Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinsl  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashwin_sl --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Sameer Brij Verma, Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners, started his journey in India’s venture capital ecosystem back in 2007. That year, he joined Reliance Ventures, where he focused on early-stage investments in technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications. His operational expertise lies in product management, business development, sales acceleration, recruiting, follow-on fundraising, and scaling. At Nexus, Sameer focuses on consumer internet, enterprise / SaaS, ed-tech, healthcare, and b2b commerce domains. He has invested in over 38 companies including the likes of Roadrunnr (Zomato), Postman, Zolo, Unacademy, and Hasura.io Join Roshan and Sameer as we breakdown the basics of venture capital, in addition to -  - A day in the life of a VC  - Finding the right startups and founders  - Sameer’s journey with venture capital  - Lessons from investing  - Frameworks for evaluating investing opportunities - Building differentiators as a VC firm   - What sets the great founders apart -------------------------  Connect with Sameer -   LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbverma/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/s_brij_verma   -------------------------  Know more about Moolya -   https://moolya.com/   Know more about Clergo -   https://www.clergo.com/  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Anup Pai is the founder of eSamudaay, India’s first community commerce platform. eSamudaay aims to enable community commerce across cities and towns of India by leveraging the country’s entrepreneurial strengths. He previously founded Fintellix that developed compliance and risk management software with analytics, for banks and financial institutions. The company served global banks such as BoA, Citibank, BNP Paribas, ICICI, and HDFC, and operated out of India and the U.S. In 2019, Anup exited Fintellix and has since been investing in and mentoring startups, particularly startups that are building businesses based on decentralisation of digital technologies. Tune in to this brand new episode of The Startup Operator with Roshan & Anup as they talk about how fintech has evolved over the years and has accelerated last-mile digitization efforts, the notion of circular economies, and empowering communities with digital tools. -------------------------  Connect with Anup -   LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anup-p-395985159/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/paianup  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

With more than 15 years of experience, Arijit Chakraborty has been in senior leadership roles with global insurers such as Manulife and Zurich. He is actively involved in the start-up ecosystem and has been building insurtech businesses in Southeast Asia for the past years. He currently serves as the Managing Director, Asia, at Cover Genius.  In this episode of The Startup Operator Podcast, Roshan and Arijit have a conversation on the opportunities and challenges of expanding to the Asia Pacific region along with insights into the insurtech space.  ------------------   Connect with Arijit -    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arijit-chakraborty-07920618/  ------------------   Know more about Moolya - https://moolya.com/   If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and let us know what you'd like us to cover in the next episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Deepa Bachu has had an illustrious career in using technology to revolutionize the lives of millions, globally. Through Pensaar Design, Deepa has taught over 5000 people design thinking in the last 2 years! Throughout her career of 24 years at HP, Merrill Lynch, Kana Communications, Intuit, and Pensaar Design, she has worked on products that millions of customers use across countries. In this episode of The Startup Operator Podcast, join Roshan and Deepa as we explore more about design thinking, being customer focussed and design-led. ------------------ Connect with Deepa -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-bachu-3b215/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/deepabachu ------------------ Know more about the role at Moolya - https://moolya.com/ If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and let us know what you'd like us to cover in the next episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

A now entrepreneur turned investor and author, Harpreet had co-founded  CoCubes, an online assessments firm, in 2007 with his co-founder Vibhore Goyal. CoCubes got acquired by Aon Hewitt in Nov 2016 in an all-cash deal and it became part of Aon’s Assessment Solutions, the world's second-largest assessment company.   At the time of the acquisition, CoCubes had touched 3 million students across India and worked with 1000+ corporates and engineering colleges.   In this episode of the Startup Operator Podcast, Roshan talks to Harpreet about his new book, Let's Build a Company, in which Harpreet talks about his learnings at CoCubes.   Connect with Harpreet -    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsgrover/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/hsgrover ** Know more about Harpreet's book**  Let's Build a Company - https://www.amazon.in/Lets-Build-Company-Start-up-Bullshit/dp/0143449834 Know more about the role at Niveshi - https://angel.co/company/niveshi/jobs/448581-vp-ai-research If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and let us know what you'd like us to cover in the next episode.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message